Purely Symbolic

Parliament's House of Expenses Claimants will hold a debate on Monday to determine whether Palestinians have a right to statehood despite consistently voting for the wrong people and being Arab without due care and attention. Ministers will abstain from voting on the motion because the official British position is to support negotiations for a two-state solution. This is of course incompatible with recognising Palestinian statehood as well as Israeli statehood, because any two-state solution would be much too delicate to survive the existence of two states. The Labour vote will be whipped, but some expenses claimants may abstain because they are unhappy with the uncompromisingly anti-semitic stance of the Milibeing, who said that the shelling of schoolchildren might be a bit much sometimes. However, the motion is purely symbolic and therefore has some chance of being passed.